Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
• May 29th, 1940 • 0h 11min
Documentary
Overview
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Hold on Tight
Released on: 2011-07-28
Documentary
A short documentary exploring the ways LGBT couples show affection, and how small interactions like ...
Men Counting Their Beads
Released on:
Documentary
An experimental documentary based on photographs of the director's grandfathers whom he never had th...
A Slice of Lynch
Released on: 2007-10-30
Documentary
David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while se...
To Thine Own Self Be True
Released on: 2023-11-23
Documentary, Horror, Drama
An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.
Land Without Bread
Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
The Year Of Punk
Released on: 1978-01-01
Documentary
The summer of the Jubilee in 1977 was mentally dominated by another national anthem - "God Save the ...
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
Released on: 1904-03-12
Documentary
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Ediso...
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
Released on: 2001-06-13
Documentary
Chronicles the life of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay movie star, who sacrificed his c...
Cool Critter
Released on: 2019-08-08
Documentary
A frustrated Hollywood actress is doing an unusual “part-time job.”
Crónica de un galgódromo
Released on: 2020-03-06
Documentary
Gardeners, veterinarians and breeders. And some imposing mammals capable of running at seventy kilom...
Prosa y verso de una identidad
Released on: 2020-03-15
Documentary
A group of writers from Hidalgo get together to generate their works and create a community around l...
The Dream Is Alive
Released on: 1985-06-01
Documentary
The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...
The Colour of His Hair
Released on: 2017-06-20
Drama, Documentary
Based on an unrealized film script written in 1964 for The Homosexual Law Reform Society, a British ...
A Fan's Guide to Ms. Marvel
Released on: 2022-06-01
Documentary
A documentary short that gives you an exclusive look behind the groundbreaking original series, "Ms....
Dior and I
Released on: 2015-03-06
Documentary
Behind-the-scenes documentary revealing what goes on inside the colourful, privileged, and sometimes...
Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?
Released on: 2015-11-11
Documentary
Daniel Johnston stars in this psychedelic short film about an aging musician coming to terms with th...